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Paul Gigot interviews General Jack Keane. Could Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei be near death? American and Israeli Intelligence analysts have been debating the state of the Iranian political and spiritual leader’s health since Khamenei posted a tweet Wednesday asking supporters to pray for him. The tweet – "I ask all of you dear ones to pray for me" – appeared on "Khameneil.ir," a Twitter site in English closely followed by Iran watchers and viewed as more or less official....

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By   Riad Kahwaji on January 28, 2021 at 3:06 PM DUBAI: Ever since Donald Trump designated the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain as “major security partners,” experts have been trying to assess what it means and what sort of privileges the designation bestows. Some see it as a symbolic gesture; others see it as an indication for much-improved relations resulting from the Abraham Accords that would eventually yield rewards for the two regional allies of America. Four days after the designa...

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Nuclear weapons business now for 23 years and hasnt gotten there. that would suggest --. jenna: patrick, sorry to interrupt. 23 years here we are waiting for another report from the u.n. nuclear watchdog agency. you mentioned tippingpoint we get a little nervous everything gets a little too close for comfort. are we close to that point now and if we are, what is the policy given this report or not? >> the question can we step up our shadow war? and can we slow irans nuclear clock at the same tim...

Needed to build a nuclear weapon. how close they are to that is completely another question. well get into that in just a moment. this all comes as evidence mounts that the west is engaged in a shadow war with tehran. patrick clawson, director of research at the washington institute for near east policy and expert on the region. patrick, starting off generally why have these reports at all? what makes them significant? >> iran is evidently getting close to have a pretty sophisticated kind of nuc...

Patrick do business with iran in different ways. do you buy that? do you think type of report is actually counterproductive to a more aggressive policy stance on the united states? or do you think what russia and china are say something more politically motivated? >> the job of technical experts like this u.n. agency, the international atomic energy agency to tell like it is. it is not their job to set policy it is their job to tell us what is going on. they have respected scientists who are qui...

gary schultz. both maintained their innocence but agreed to resign. legendary penn state football coach, joe paterno issued this statement. he called the charges shocking. saying he grieves for the victims and their families. well get a live report from harris berg on this developing story -- harrisburg a little later in the hour. good morning to you on this monday. some major developments on the economic front. hello, im jon scott. >> a lot of news to get to today. great to be with yo...

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